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Mike Barrett

State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA

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Mike, wife Nancy and daughters Lily and Rivka

Mike Barrett is State Senator for nine Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury.

Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.

He previously served as Chair of the Senate Post-Audit and Oversight Committee, a unique body charged with overseeing implementation of all state programs run by the Governor and his appointees. Upon entering the Legislature several years ago, Mike was appointed Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities, an assignment with wide responsibility for programs that help poor women, abused and neglected kids, troubled teens and people with physical and intellectual challenges. Over the course of his term, funding for the Department of Children and Families reversed course and began to climb, after years of steady and injurious decline. Mike also serves as Senate Chair of the Mass. Legislature’s Disabilities Caucus.

For 17 years before his 2012 election, Mike made his living in health care and information technology, first as CEO and General Counsel of the Visiting Nurse Associations of New England, a health care system composed of 70 home health nursing agencies, and then as a health care IT analyst for Forrester Research and Critical Mass Consulting. Prior to working in the private sector, Mike served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and State Senate, where he was a leader on issues ranging from gay rights to human services.

In 1990, during his first stint as State Senator, Mike wrote an Atlantic Monthly cover story in which he advocated a longer school day and year for American students. A year later, he was named one of nine commissioners on the National Education Commission on Time and Learning, created by the U.S. Congress to examine the issues raised in the Atlantic article.

In 1992 Mike drafted and saw through to enactment domestic violence legislation for Massachusetts that was precedent-setting in the United States, in that it required judges to consult a comprehensive computerized registry of offenders before they ruled on requests for restraining orders. He was also successful as lead sponsor of major environmental legislation regulating uses of toxic materials in manufacturing within the state.

Mike graduated from Harvard College and the Northeastern University School of Law. He lives in Lexington with his wife Nancy. They have twin daughters.

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Massachusetts needs to open up huge new sources of green electric power if it’s to stay on course for reducing emissions. The compromise aims to ramp up clean power, especially offshore wind but also solar, storage and networked geothermal, and run it through cars, trucks, buses, and buildings, the biggest sources of emissions in the state. ... See MoreSee Less

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There’s plenty more to do, but nothing motivates like success.



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Massachusetts just passed a massive climate and clean energy bill

Some cities and towns will be allowed to ban fossil fuel infrastructure in new and major construction projects.

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Right back at you, @jeffroy. And now we wait.

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Grateful to my Senate co-chair @senatorbarrett for his thoughtful collaboration in helping to produce a bill that ensures that Massachusetts is poised to restore its position as the national leader on offshore wind and clean energy.

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Monday morning, 8am. We’ve been in continuous session since 11 am yesterday morning. A very strong climate bill for MA, the second in as many years, is now on the Governor’s desk. There is something literal to this, in that the final step a bill takes out of the Legislature…
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Massachusetts needs to open up huge new sources of green electric power if it’s to stay on course for reducing emissions.



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Governor should sign climate bill that would end gas-powered car sales in 2035 - The Boston Globe

The climate bill that the Legislature sent to Governor Baker looks very different from the one he submitted. Still, he should sign it.

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Mike Barrett

State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA

Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln,
Waltham, Weston, and large parts of Lexington and Sudbury

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